Lee Je-hoon ended Taxi Driver 3 and mentioned his next project.
On the morning of the 19th, at a cafe in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, an end-of-series interview with Lee Je-hoon for the SBS Friday-Saturday drama Taxi Driver 3 (directed by Kang Bo-seung | written by Oh Sang-ho | produced by Studio S, Group Eight, BA Entertainment) was held.
Through Taxi Driver 3, Lee Je-hoon played Kim Do-gi, delivering a story with a larger scale and more spectacular elements than seasons 1 and 2, serving as the central pillar of Rainbow Transport. In particular, this season he returned with a more realistic secondary character, which increased immersion.
When asked about his feelings at the end, Lee Je-hoon said, "I watched the original broadcasts every week and viewed the drama from the viewer's perspective. It feels like it's been less than ten days since it ended. Only now that it's over do I feel it, and because I used to watch it every Friday and Saturday, not watching it now leaves a big emptiness. I think that feeling is the same not only for my family but also for people around me, and I imagine the production crew and actors who filmed the drama feel the same way."
At the end of last year, Lee Je-hoon won the grand prize for Taxi Driver 3. Even with the same monitoring, it was expected that the feeling would be somewhat different after receiving the grand prize. Lee Je-hoon explained, "I don't think it was that different. Even if we hadn't received it, many viewers kept their interest until the end and loved the show, and from that viewer perspective I watched how the ending would be wrapped up, and since there are viewer boards these days, I think I enjoyed checking reactions."
At the production presentation, Lee Je-hoon said he was not at all conscious of the "grand prize." However, having received the grand prize twice through the Taxi Driver series surely carries special sentiment.
Lee Je-hoon said, "When choosing projects I don't pick them with awards in mind. Looking at it as a result, the record of how many people watched a work inevitably has a significant impact on year-end awards. At the production presentation I wasn't thinking about it at all, but because so many people loved the show and invited the Rainbow Transport people to the year-end awards, I did have some expectations."
Recently Lee Je-hoon has met viewers through various genre works. It seemed he might have a desire to show somewhat different acting. He said, "I think that from my debut until now I have worked across a variety of genres in my own way. There are areas I lack; it's regrettable that I don't have melodrama or romantic comedy roles, so I hope to fill that filmography, and I'm consciously looking for such projects."
When asked directly, "Is rom-com not coming to you well?" Lee Je-hoon replied, "It's not that it doesn't come to me, but if I had multiple bodies I could choose more diversely. Because what I can do ends up being one thing, even if there are rom-com or melodrama genres, works in other genres that dominate me lead me to fill my filmography with those. But that should change now."
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